I totally agree Martin Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: how astrology actually works Replies: 4 Views: 5374 Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:53 am Jump to post
Hi Martin, If you're thinking about getting the book, you could also first watch this video where Jeffrey Mishlove discusses it with Kastrup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E500ELKYKE I think Kastrup's big strength is that he's very up to date when it comes to physics and neuroscience. But he also ... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: how astrology actually works Replies: 4 Views: 5374 Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:11 am Jump to post
how astrology actually works Hi everybody, I've created a youtube video that tries to answer the question how astrology and cartomancy (and telepathy) actually work. It's based on my reading of the book 'Decoding Jung's Metaphysics' by philosopher Bernardo Kastrup. It's kinda technical and epic, 42 minutes long, but if you're i... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: how astrology actually works Replies: 4 Views: 5374 Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:51 am Jump to post
To be honest, the restrictions you choose to put around your topic feel quite unnatural to me. So it's probably best for me to shut up. I probably got confused by the title of this thread, which sounds more philosophically. I'm left with one question which deserves its own thread: why would it be a ... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:22 am Jump to post
dubbhism, thanks for an interesting discussion. 1. Most of what astrologers look at does not exist in any "real" sense. What we look at are long-standing cultural conventions: signs, houses, degrees, essential dignities, constellations, lots, aspects, planetary rulerships. I'd prefer to l... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:17 am Jump to post
So if Mercury retrograde is not an accurate description of the planet's orbit but it does correlate with mythologically derived "inaccurate communication" in a big data study, what does this say about the cultural cosmos? In general i would assume that meaning insofar as it's being mediat... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:36 pm Jump to post
hey waybread, i wasn't referring to the Mercury Retrograde slides, i was referring to this article: Twitter Followers Biased to Astrological Charts of Celebrities (Published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration) https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpm5359n308wmkm/JSE%20291%20Oshop.pdf?dl The Mercury Retro... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:59 am Jump to post
The minute the talk turns to statistics, suddenly the astrologer becomes invisible. But waybread, only a few posts ago i gave an example of (excellent) peer reviewed research by Renay Oshop published in a fine scientific journal, based on big data and solid statistics. What exactly is not good enou... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:42 am Jump to post
Surely you're familiar with how much real estate around the zodiac a 10-degree orb for the sun in relation to another planet using only the major aspects would occupy: 160 degrees out of 360, by my calculation. Orbs are subjective, quantitative calibrations of the results. In the 'automated' approa... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:30 pm Jump to post
Thanks a lot for that unique astrology, i'm not sure that your analysis would change Cicero's mind, but the plot certainly thickens. It is my impression that there are quite a few extraordinary things happening during the big battles between Rome and Hannibal. Personally i focus on asteroids like Ha... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:13 pm Jump to post
I see astrology a little bit different. The mind of the astrologer probably does play a very big part, and i do agree that signs, houses, lots and constellations are in some sense invented but i don't think aspects are pure inventions, because that would suggest to me that the whole of mathematics a... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:16 am Jump to post
If i could travel in time or predict the future, i would be interested to find out if we ever get asteroids named after famous Nazis. This would be a very bad sign of course, and i'm guessing this will never happen, but then again, Pyrrhus, Caesar, Hannibal and Attila already got lucky. The synchron... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: The causality problem in astrology Replies: 48 Views: 39459 Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:37 pm Jump to post